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by Udik 6y ago
I know this is not HN custom, but this is gold. Bravo!
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by Udik 6y ago
Git is originally a derogatory term for people born out of wedlock. There's plenty of "gits" who might feel offended to be reminded of their sinful birth.
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by Udik 6y ago
Frankly I doubt it. While I saw a number of supporters of this change (albeit small compared to those who are outraged), those who have personal reasons to be offended seem to be a tiny minority if any at all. Those who advocate for the cha
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by Udik 6y ago
I don't get the title "GitHub abandons 'master' and 'slave' terms to avoid row". What row has this avoided? It seems it has generated a huge one, avoided none.
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by Udik 6y ago
Because language is a shared good, established by convention. When you unilaterally decide that a word in the language I use (and own, for my part) is tainted, and by chance- because you maintain a piece of software- you have enough power t
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by Udik 6y ago
It sends a terribile message. That is fine to whine about unimportant things, to impose your personal interpretation of a word by morally blackmailing others [1] (if you don't do what I say you're a racist), to ignore the subtleti
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GitHub renaming default branch to “main”(twitter.com)
39 points by Udik 6y ago|62 comments
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by Udik 6y ago
Not that I want to discuss about manners but, after someone told you, unrequested, some very personal stuff, I don't find it impolite to ask some further detail- although I accept it if he doesn't want to answer. The question in i
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by Udik 6y ago
Ah, right!
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Why is there a G buildup? I would love imagine acceleration to be fairly constant, not to increase with time (at least once out of the atmosphere).
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by Udik 6y ago
Not sure about their athleticism, but it's true that they have been awarded Nobel prizes between 5000% and 20000% of their population share (depending on the discipline), and it's time to put an end to this blatant systemic racism
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by Udik 6y ago
Do you realize that this is full-fledged, genetics-based racism?
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by Udik 6y ago
> for possession of cannabis... I got 3 years Sorry if I ask, but how much? Three years seems an awful lot of time. Second, for how long can companies access this kind of record? Isn't it unacceptable to discriminate candidates base
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> If members of my community are being killed with abandon across the country by the police Frankly, I don't even think that this is true. I think the US police is just hyper-violent, mostly for cultural reasons (both on the side of
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by Udik 6y ago
Corollary: time machines are a strict subset of teleporters.
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> I do not want active duty soldiers pointing weapons of war around my neighborhood for any reason... I'll not have my home treated like a failed state or enemy war zone. These are excellent concerns, and I fully agree with you on t
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Pity it never made the homepage, despite a reasonable amount of upvotes.
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From one side empathy is a very popular emotion; trash tv for example has always been peddling in cheap empathy. I suspect that for a vast majority of people empathy comes natural, while logical analysis requires an effort. We had establish
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by Udik 6y ago
> Hold on now: words do incite violence. Media does incite violence. Words and media can incite violence. Now that you've stated this fact, it's still up to you to argue that a particular op-ed is inciting violence and, in ca
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by Udik 6y ago
True, but I still find the arguments to have merit, whoever the author might be. Maybe someone with some inside knowledge of Berkeley can help verifying if some of the details given check out.
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Professor's Open Letter Against BLM, Police Brutality and Cultural Orthodoxy(web.archive.org)
10 points by Udik 6y ago|6 comments
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I don't agree fully with your explanation as I don't think the problem has been posed, in general, in terms of avoiding putting people's lives in danger. The issue is instead that empathy has become the attitude and quality t
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by Udik 6y ago
That's seriously cool. I think that a tool that could take a high level description of a small piece of code and write it for me (it doesn't have to be correct- I can double check it and fix it quicker than I write it) would make
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by Udik 6y ago
Yeah, ok. So what did they want? Pepsi Cola paying $40k to every person in the country? Really?
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You can simply multiply that sum by 100 or 1000 and ask yourself how would you react if the same happened to you. In this order: 1) you buy several Pepsi 2) you discover you won 40 million 3) you discover everyone else won 40 million 4)
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by Udik 6y ago
> Each of the winners, in their mind, lost $38,980 - more money than they could hope to save up in a lifetime. Yes. Then as soon as they meet all the people that have made the exact same win they must realise something is wrong, right? &
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by Udik 6y ago
What strikes me as food for thought is the stupidity and wickedness of the riots. I understand the rage if you own one of the few winning tickets of a lottery and the organization doesn't want to pay out. But in this case they knew tha
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by Udik 6y ago
These don't seem ethnicity stats at all. These are "two or three groups we have problems with" plus the rest of humanity divided in "white" and "Asians".
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by Udik 6y ago
Anyway, it seems that for the time being the world is getting greener: https://www.thezip.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/20190722_1... Article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornac
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by Udik 6y ago
> If there is suddenly a shortage of water for irrigation, and of natural rainfall, most crops will fail. Are climate change scenarios predicting less rainfall on average? It seems that the total volume of precipitation is going to incr

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